Cartoon County interview #16: Aces Weekly
September 25th, 2012
August’s Cartoon County turned out to be the dawn of a bright new age for comics as David Lloyd and Bambos unsheathed their plans for the unique webcomic project, Aces Weekly.
Aces Weekly is a genuinely exciting venture which involves original new work from the likes of Herb Trimpe, Bill Sienkiewicz, Kyle Baker, John McCrea, Phil Hester, Steve Bissette, David Leach, Colleen Doran, David Hine, Henry Flint, Mark Wheatley, David Hitchcock, Lew Stringer, Carl Critchlow, Phill Elliott, Rory Walker and more! Here’s how it’s going down:
It really does seem like a great model for creators and readers alike so get along and subscribe!
Cartoon County is an association of over 100 cartoonists and comic artists in the Sussex area. Our regular meetings are usually on the last Monday of every month at The Cricketers, Black Lion St, Brighton, from 6 til late. If you’re a cartoonist or a comic artist, or use those particular styles of drawing in your work as an illustrator, animator or storyboard artist, you are very welcome to join us.
Cartoon County interview #13: Glenn Fabry
September 23rd, 2012
So Glenn “AMAZING!” Fabry came to Cartoon County back in April. It was almost literally like this:
LISTEN TO IT, FOOL!
Click here to download our Glenn Fabry interview
Cartoon County is an association of over 100 cartoonists and comic artists in the Sussex area. Our regular meetings are usually on the last Monday of every month at The Cricketers, Black Lion St, Brighton, from 6 til late. If you’re a cartoonist or a comic artist, or use those particular styles of drawing in your work as an illustrator, animator or storyboard artist, you are very welcome to join us.
Cartoon County interview #12: Karrie Fransman and Ian Hague
September 10th, 2012
Way back in March, Cartoon County played host to two speakers. They were nice and good. There names were Karrie Fransman and Ian Hague.
Karrie Fransman has created comics for The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, The New Statesman and Psychologies Magazine and published a graphic novel The House That Groaned with Random House’s Square Peg. This is what it sounds like when she speaks:
Click to download Karrie Fransman
Ian Hague is the director of Comics Foruma website and annual event which aims to increase the visibility and accessibility of comics scholarship. When he opens his mouth, this happens:
Cartoon County is an association of over 100 cartoonists and comic artists in the Sussex area. Our regular meetings are usually on the last Monday of every month at The Cricketers, Black Lion St, Brighton, from 6 til late. If you’re a cartoonist or a comic artist, or use those particular styles of drawing in your work as an illustrator, animator or storyboard artist, you are very welcome to join us.
Cartoon County interview #8: Upside Comics
October 17th, 2011
Here’s our latest Cartoon County podcast where we talk to Stephen Silverwood and Laurence Stead of children’s literacy charity, Upside Comics.
Cartoon County is an association of over 100 cartoonists and comic artists in the Sussex area. Our regular meetings are usually on the last Monday of every month at The Cricketers, Black Lion St, Brighton, from 6 til late. If you’re a cartoonist or a comic artist, or use those particular styles of drawing in your work as an illustrator, animator or storyboard artist, you are very welcome to join us. next meeting Monday 24th October.
Cartoon County interview #7: Steve Carroll
August 21st, 2011
Here’s June’s Cartoon County podchat. This month’s speaker was Steve Carroll who has been working on Once Damaged, the account of one disabled woman’s ordeals and triumphs. The discussion went into some interesting areas regarding the sensitive nature of the piece. Most vocal in the discussion are David Lloyd, Paul Rafferty, Nye Wright, Dan Locke.
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Cartoon County is an association of over 100 cartoonists and comic artists in the Sussex area. Our regular meetings are usually on the last Monday of every month at The Cricketers, Black Lion St, Brighton, from 6 til late. If you’re a cartoonist or a comic artist, or use those particular styles of drawing in your work as an illustrator, animator or storyboard artist, you are very welcome to join us. next meeting Monday 5th September.
Click here to see some images from Once Damaged
Cartoon County interview #5: Mark Buford
May 17th, 2011
Here’s the latest Cartoon County chat, preserved for you in pod form. Here we talk to Mark Buford. Mark is the creator of the daily strip, Scary Gary. We had an entertaining talk about the strip and this tough and overlooked branch of sequential illustration. Hope you enjoy it!
Cartoon County interview #4: John Higgins
November 8th, 2010
Back in August we talked to John Higgins John Higgins at the monthly Cartoon County meeting. Look! There he is with his creation, Razorjack!
We interviewed John a while back and now you can hear a pretty much unedited 1 hour conversation with the man in the company of Dez Skinn, David Lloyd and a host of other sequential storytellers. The talk ranges from 70s head comics to superheroes, blue line colouring to computer colouring, self publishing and Spider-Man’s underpants.
Cartoon County interview #3: Sarah Lightman of Laydeez do Comics
October 20th, 2010
Back in June, Cartoon County had a visit from Sarah Lightman of the London based graphic narrative creating and reading group Laydeez Do Comics. It was ascorching hot day and we had the air conditioning on, creating some audio issues. Still, worth a listen.
Cartoon County interview #2: Garen Ewing
May 24th, 2010
At the end of April, Garen Ewing came along to Cartoon County for an informal chat amongst fellow comic creators the Cricketers pub in Brighton.
We mostly talked about his series The Adventures of Julius Chancer: The Rainbow Orchid, published by Egmont. Book Two is due in July with Book One available now and you could win a copy (see below). The conversation covered a number of topics including Tin Tin, Asterix, The DFC, Class and British comics and off into a discussion about digital comics which everyone has an opinion on which is why this podcast is so long… well,
Click to download Garen Ewing interview
Karen Rubins interview
March 1st, 2010
Cartoon County is a Sussex based organization run by David Lloyd and Corinne Pearlman where comic book types can show their work and share information. The monthly meetings at The Cricketers pub in Brighton are a great source of inspiration and alcohol for all involved. Last January’s meeting was graced by the presence of Karen Rubins. Karen is nice and special as she recently completed a residency at the prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum.
She was kind enough to talk about the experience and answer questions from CC’s more gobby members like myself, David Lloyd, Dez Skinn, Corinne Pearlman and Tim Pilcher. Why not listen as she talks secret tunnels, samurai swords, hidden comic collections, tarot cards and filling in forms!!!!!
